One Liners - Page 3

• ... A man can move mountains, a world can be turned, and the greatest of distances easily spanned, When the strength that's invested in making a fist is transformed into shaking a hand - D M Roth
  
  
• 'Good enough never is' has become the motto of this company - Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields cookies
  
  
• The one who refuses to hear criticism has no chance to learn from it. (see Pv.15:5)
  
  
• Take your work seriously, but never take yourself seriously, and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. - novelist Booth Tarkington
  
  
• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree, for if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. (poet Charles Baudelaire)
  
  
• People say that money isn't the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. - comedian Joan Rivers
  
  
• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
  
  
• The only failure, is the failure to try - U.S. Army Special Operations-Delta Force Motto
  
  
• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - author Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  
  
• People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hopes that a cow will back up to them - author Curtis Grant
  
  
• No two courses or rounds are ever so alike that you can attack them with exactly the same game plan. - golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr.
  
  
• Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night' - retiring cartoonist Charles Schultz
  
  
• You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside. - inventor and engineer Vladimir Zworykin
  
  
• Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chose, few in pursuit of the goal. - Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - author Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  
  
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
  
  
• When you stop talking, you've lost your customer - cosmetics executive Estee Lauder
  
  
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises - Demosthenes, Greek orator and statesman
  
  
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity - English novelist Douglas Adams
  
  
• The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. - Scottish author Kenneth Grahame
  
  
• The only person who likes change is a wet baby. - Roy Z-M Blitzer
  
  
• Contentment is the smother of invention. - unknown
  
  
• Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance. - author Cullen Hightower
  
  
• One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. - Seventeenth century author Thomas Fuller
  
  
• Sweet praise is like perfume, it is fine if you don't swallow it. - 34th U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• Benjamin Franklin at age 20 crafted his epitaph to say,
  The Body of B. Franklin, Printer ... Lies here, Food for Worms.
  But the Work shall not be lost;
  For it will appear once more, In a new and more elegant
  Edition Revised and corrected by the Author."
  
  
• The problem is that even if what they offer is 90 percent healthy and only 10 percent rat poison, the rat poison is still going to kill you. - Scott Hebner, director of e-business marketing at the IBM Software Group, speaking about attempts to extend open technologies using proprietary technology.
  
  
• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - Haida Indian Saying